<p>Is anyone wondering if he’s a disgruntled employee?</p>
<p>Well… and mentally unstable.</p>
<p>Can you post a link?</p>
<p>[Small</a> plane crashes into building housing IRS - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100218/ap_on_re_us/us_plane_crash_texas]Small”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100218/ap_on_re_us/us_plane_crash_texas)</p>
<p>[Small</a> Plane Crashes Into Austin, Texas, Office Building - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586581,00.html]Small”>Obama Jumps Into 2010 Race With Appeal to Latinos, African-Americans, Women and Youth)</p>
<p>An NTSB official told Fox News that they are investigating this as an intentional act, and said it appears the pilot set his own house on fire and then got in his plane and flew it into the building. An NTSB spokesman, however, told FoxNews.com that “we can’t confirm any of that.”</p>
<p>Authorities said they have identified the pilot, but are not yet releasing the name.
An Internal Revenue Service office is located inside the building.</p>
<p>IRS Agent William Winnie said he was on the third floor of the building when he saw a light-colored, single engine plane coming towards the building,</p>
<p>Truly bizarre. I’m thinking along the same lines as teriwtt; this seems like it could be the act of a disgruntled former employee.</p>
<p>Or someone with a tax problem with the IRS.</p>
<p>They released the name of the pilot—Joseph Andrew Stack</p>
<p>Also, he may have set fire to his house before the crash.</p>
<p>Officials are trying to determine if the plane was stolen.</p>
<p>CNN is reporting on a 6 page suicide note left on a computer. He was disgruntled with the IRS (who had 190 employees in that building) the Catholic Church, George W. Bush, his CPA and wife.</p>
<p>Basically just mad at the whole world.</p>
<p>Left-wing terrorism? Apparently his note was pro-communism and anti-religion. If he’d railed about Obama before crashing a plane into a federal office, you can bet people would be blaming this on the radical right.</p>
<p>Any update on the employees of the building? I work in the tallest buidling in my city and since 9/11 I’ve decided that I really don’t want to die in a fire at work.</p>
<p>Two have been taken to the hospital, and one person is unaccounted for, but they are not saying if that is the pilot or not.</p>
<p>This is purportedly his manifesto</p>
<p>[Well</a> Mr. Big Brother IRS man… take my pound of flesh and sleep well.](<a href=“http://embeddedart.com/]Well”>http://embeddedart.com/)</p>
<p>I think this is his manifesto. He had a serious beef with the IRS.</p>
<p>[The</a> Manifesto Of Austin Texas Crash Pilot Joseph Andrew Stack](<a href=“http://www.businessinsider.com/joseph-andrew-stacks-insane-manifesto-2010-2]The”>The Manifesto of Austin Texas Crash Pilot Joseph Andrew Stack)</p>
<p>Except for the very last statement he did not came across as pro-communism.</p>
<p>Boy, a lot going on in his mind. I’d hate to be the acountant who was mentioned by name.</p>
<p>I’m glad he isn’t muslim. Or speculations would immediately run to terrorism and people would be blaming the present administration.</p>
<p>Actually, reading through his note again, I don’t see a left-wing link in there. This guy just really, really hated the IRS.</p>
<p>I read his rant and certainly understood his beef with the contractor laws that changed back around the 1980s as they affected me too. It seems that he had an extraordinary run of bad luck despite having at least the ability to get an engineering degree. He seemed to be angry at the left and the right in his two quotes at the bottom of his letter.</p>
<p>There are a lot of people that are angry in the country over our economic problems. This guy apparently gave up hope and wanted to take others with him.</p>
<p>I’m a tax lawyer and I have seen my fair share of people who are VERY angry at the IRS ( this is over a 30-year period; no one party or administration is immune from the anger).</p>
<p>I have to confess, there have been times in my dealings with the IRS that I fully understand the anger. I have told some of the IRS employees (mainly attorneys) I have dealt with that I’m surprised that there aren’t more cases of people walking into IRS offices and blowing everyone away. (NOT that I condone such thougths/actions, but I do understand them . . . the IRS can, and does, destroy lives with indifference.) </p>
<p>I’m very sorry for the victims of this man’s actions.</p>
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<p>It IS terrorism, absolutely.</p>
<p>I can’t help but wonder why, just like with the Virginia Tech murderer, the media is publishing any screed, “manifesto” or whatever you want to call it, and giving this deranged individual a posthumous platform?</p>
<p>My thoughts and prayers go to the victims’ families and friends.</p>